US EditionCanada Post moving ahead with plan to end home delivery
Canada Post says the shift could save about $400 million a year as it moves to community mailboxes and other cost-cutting measures.
- On Monday, Canada Post announced it is ending most door-to-door mail delivery, transitioning about four million Canadian households to community mailboxes while consulting the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and seeking amendments to the Canadian Postal Service Charter.
- Facing $5 billion in operating losses since 2018, Canada Post confronts what the federal government described as an 'existential crisis' in the postal service, prompting the shift to stabilize finances by 2030.
- Canada Post projects around $400 million in annual savings by shifting from $279-per-address home delivery to $157-per-address community mailboxes, with the nine-year transition also ending a three-decade moratorium on rural post office consolidation.
- The Canadian Union of Postal Workers responded to Monday's announcement with a nationwide strike, with union officials describing the plan as a 'huge victory' for Canada Post 'at the expense of their members.'
- Urban planning professor Richard Shearmur from McGill University warned that older neighbourhoods and rural areas lack sidewalks, forcing residents to 'walk onto the road or drive to the community mailbox,' particularly after community mailboxes in Paradise, N.L., were snowed over on Feb. 25.
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Canada Post is planning to end home delivery. Here's how community mailboxes will work
If your dog goes crazy every time the mail delivery person shows up at your door, you may be relieved to know that it soon may no longer be a problem. But beyond that, a lot of people are uncertain what the pending demise of door-to-door mail delivery means for them.
Canada Post Moves Ahead With Plans to Cut Home Delivery
Door-to-door mail delivery is coming to an end across the country as Canada Post proceeds with the restructuring plan mandated by the federal government last fall. The federal mail service announced the upcoming change in a March 31 statement. It said the directive from Ottawa was to move ahead with the plan to end home delivery. “These proposed changes include converting the remaining addresses that still receive delivery at the door to communi…
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